Tafseer of The Inevitable · Al-Waaqia · 56:28
[They will be] among lote trees with thorns removed
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Then He began the account of what He has prepared for them in Paradise (al-janna), and how their state will be when they enter it. He said: they are فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ ("amid thornless lote-trees"), that is: amid the fruit of a lote-tree, laden with produce, whose thorns have been removed.
The people of interpretation (ahl al-taʾwīl) have differed concerning its interpretation. Some of them said: by "makhḍūd" is meant: that whose thorns have been pruned away, so that no thorn remains on it.
* Mention of who said that:
ʿAlī related to me, saying: Abū Ṣāliḥ related to us, saying: Muʿāwiya related to me, on the authority of ʿAlī, on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās, concerning His word: سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: its thorns have been pruned away and it is laden with produce. And it is said: it has been pruned until its thorns were gone, so that no thorn remains on it.
Ibn ʿAbd al-Aʿlā related to us, saying: al-Muʿtamir related to us, on the authority of his father: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: Muḥammad ibn ʿIkrima claimed, saying: there is no thorn on it.
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: ʿAbd al-Raḥmān related to us, saying: Sufyān related to us, on the authority of Ḥabīb, on the authority of ʿIkrima, concerning His word: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: there is no thorn on it.
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: Hawdha ibn Khalīfa related to us, saying: ʿAwf related to us, on the authority of Qasāma ibn Zuhayr, concerning His word: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: it has been pruned of its thorns, so that no thorn remains on it.
Abū Ḥumayd al-Ḥimṣī Aḥmad ibn al-Mughīra related to us, saying: Yaḥyā ibn Saʿīd related to us, saying: ʿAmr ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAbdallāh al-Aḥmūsī related to us, on the authority of al-Safar ibn Nusayr, concerning the word of Allah, Mighty and Exalted is He: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: its thorn has been pruned away, so that no thorn remains on it.
Bishr related to us, saying: Yazīd related to us, saying: Saʿīd related to us, on the authority of Qatāda, concerning His word: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: we were told that it is the laden [tree] on which there is no thorn.
Ibn Bashshār related to us, saying: Sulaymān related to us, saying: Qatāda related to us, concerning His word: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: there is no thorn on it.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Mihrān related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Abū Isḥāq, on the authority of Abū al-Aḥwaṣ: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: it has no thorn.
Mihrān related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Ḥabīb ibn Abī Thābit, on the authority of ʿIkrima: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: there is no thorn on it.
And Ibn Ḥumayd related it to me another time, on the authority of Mihrān, with the same isnād, on the authority of ʿIkrima, and he said: it has no thorn, and it is the laden one.
And others said: rather, what is meant by it is that it is heavily laden with produce.
* Mention of who said that:
Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr related to me, saying: Abū ʿĀṣim related to us, saying: ʿĪsā related to us; and al-Ḥārith related to me, saying: al-Ḥasan related to us, saying: Warqāʾ related to us — both of them — on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: مَخْضُودٍ , he said: they say: this is that which is heavily laden with produce.
Muḥammad ibn Sinān al-Qazzāz related to me, saying: Abū Ḥudhayfa related to us, saying: Sufyān related to us, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: the laden one.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Mihrān related to us, on the authority of Sufyān, on the authority of Ibn Abī Najīḥ, on the authority of Mujāhid: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: the laden one.
It was related to me on the authority of al-Ḥusayn, he said: I heard Abū Muʿādh say: ʿUbayd related to us, saying: I heard al-Ḍaḥḥāk say, concerning His word: سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he says: laden.
Ibn Ḥumayd related to us, saying: Ḥukkām related to us, on the authority of ʿAmr, on the authority of ʿAṭāʾ ibn al-Sāʾib, on the authority of Saʿīd ibn Jubayr: فِي سِدْرٍ مَخْضُودٍ , he said: its fruit is larger than the great water-jars (al-qilāl).
